Petro Dyachenko

Petro Dyachenko (30 January 1895-23 April 1965) was a colonel in the Ukrainian Liberation Army and a general in the Ukrainian National Army during World War II, collaborating with Nazi Germany.

Biography
Petro Dyachenko was born on 30 January 1895 in Berezova Luka, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire. He commanded the Russian 333rd Infantry Regiment during World War I, but during the Russian Civil War he became loyal to the Ukrainian National Republic and then Poland after the UNR's fall to the Soviet Union. Dyachenko led the 3rd Polish Mazovian Chevauleger Regiment at the start of World War II and was captured by Nazi Germany, and he became a member of the Ukrainian Central Committee formed by Germany. Dyachenko was a Colonel of the Ukrainian Liberation Army and a General of the Ukrainian National Army, and he crushed the Polish Underground in Poland during the Warsaw Uprising. In May 1945 his 2nd UNA Division surrendered to the United States in Austria, and he lived in West Germany and the United States, being an exile for supporting an independent Ukraine. He died in Philadelphia in 1965.